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The Best Attractions In Lewistown

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Starved Rock State Park

Dickson Mounds Museum

Great Rivers Scenic Route

Lincolns New Salem State Park

Matthiessen State Park

Historic Nauvoo

IL Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum

Lewistown is a city in Fulton County, Illinois, United States. It was named by its founder, Ossian M. Ross, after his oldest son, Lewis W. Ross. The population was 2,384 at the 2010 census, down from 2,522 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Fulton County. Located in central Illinois, it is southwest of Peoria. It is the source of Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, who lived there. Native American burial mounds are nearby at Dickson Mounds off Illinois Route 97.
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The Best Attractions In Lewistown

1. Starved Rock State Park Utica
Starved Rock State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Illinois, characterized by the many canyons within its 2,630 acres . Located just southeast of the village of Utica, in Deer Park Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, along the south bank of the Illinois River, the park hosts over two million visitors annually, the most for any Illinois state park.Before European contact, the area was home to Native Americans, particularly the Kaskaskia who lived in the Grand Village of the Illinois across the river. Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette were the first Europeans recorded as exploring the region, and by 1683, the French had established Fort St. Louis on a large sandstone butte overlooking the river, they called Le Rocher . Later after the French had moved on, according to a local leg...
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2. Matthiessen State Park Utica
3. Historic Nauvoo Nauvoo
The Mormon Trail is the 1,300-mile route that members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traveled from 1846 to 1868. Today, the Mormon Trail is a part of the United States National Trails System, known as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail. The Mormon Trail extends from Nauvoo, Illinois, which was the principal settlement of the Latter Day Saints from 1839 to 1846, to Salt Lake City, Utah, which was settled by Brigham Young and his followers beginning in 1847. From Council Bluffs, Iowa to Fort Bridger in Wyoming, the trail follows much the same route as the Oregon Trail and the California Trail; these trails are collectively known as the Emigrant Trail. The Mormon pioneer run began in 1846, when Young and his followers were driven from Nauvoo. After leaving, they ai...
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4. Lincolns New Salem State Park Petersburg Illinois
Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site is a reconstruction of the former village of New Salem in Menard County, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837. While in his twenties, the future U.S. President made his living in this village as a boatman, soldier in the Black Hawk War, general store owner, postmaster, surveyor, and rail splitter, and was first elected to the Illinois General Assembly. Lincoln left New Salem for Springfield in 1837, and the village was generally abandoned by about 1840, as other towns developed. In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps built a historic recreation of New Salem based on its original foundations, establishing a state park commemorating Lincoln and Illinois' frontier history. The village is located 15 mi northwest of Springfield, ...
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5. Great Rivers Scenic Route Alton
The Great River Road is a collection of state and local roads that follow the course of the Mississippi River through ten states of the United States. They are Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana. It formerly extended north into Canada, serving the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba. The term Great River Road refers both to a series of roadways and to a larger region inside the US and in each state, used for tourism and historic purposes. Some states have designated or identified regions of state interest along the road and use the roads to encompass those regions.It is divided into two main sections: the Great River Road and the National Scenic Byway Route. The eponymous segment runs on both sides of the river from Louisi...
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6. IL Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum Pontiac
U.S. Route 66 was a United States Numbered Highway in Illinois that connected St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago, Illinois. The highway had previously been Illinois Route 4 and the road has now been largely replaced with Interstate 55 . Parts of the road still carry traffic and six separate portions of the roadbed have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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7. Dickson Mounds Museum Lewistown Illinois
Dickson Mounds is a Native American settlement site and burial mound complex near Lewistown, Illinois. It is located in Fulton County on a low bluff overlooking the Illinois River. It is a large burial complex containing at least two cemeteries, ten superimposed burial mounds, and a platform mound. The Dickson Mounds site was founded by 800 CE and was in use until after 1250 CE. The site is named in honor of chiropractor Don Dickson, who began excavating it in 1927 and opened a private museum that formerly operated on the site. Its exhibition of the 237 uncovered skeletons uncovered and displayed by Dixon was closed in 1992 by then-Gov. Jim Edgar.Don Dickson was a chiropractor and discovered the burial mounds on his family farm. Instead of removing the bones, he only removed the dirt. He c...
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New Bedford, MA - USA Cityscapes

New Bedford é uma cidade estadunidense/americana localizada no estado de Massachusetts, no Condado de Bristol. Fica a cerca de 82 quilômetros de Boston, a 45 quilômetros de Providence, e a 19 quilômetros de Fall River.
A sua área é de 62,2 quilômetros quadrados, dos quais 10,1 quilômetros estão cobertos por água. Sua população é de 93.768 habitantes, e sua densidade populacional é de 1 799 hab/km², segundo o censo de 2000. A cidade de New Bedford tem uma população grande de imigrantes portugueses.
A cidade foi fundada em 1652, e incorporada em 1787.

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Bridge Ct (Detroit Shoreway, Cleveland, OH) to East 2nd Street (Downtown) via Ohio City-West Side

Watch in 720p full-screen to view map info. Visit for more info. - Waypoints: 0:09 W 52nd St
0:09 Olivet Baptist Church
0:09 Bridge Ave
0:10 W 54th St
0:13 Franklin Blvd
0:14 Detroit Ave
0:15 W 50th St
0:15 W 49th St
0:15 W 48th St
0:16 W 45th St
0:17 Cleveland Memorial Shoreway
0:18 Vermont Ave
0:18 West 28th Street
0:18 Main Ave
0:18 West 25th Street
0:19 Center St
0:19 Cuyahoga River
0:19 Old River Rd
0:20 W 9th St
0:20 W Lakeside Ave
0:21 W 3rd St
0:21 Bank St
0:21 Waterfront Line
0:21 Chicago Line
0:22 E 9th St
0:23 S Marginal Rd
0:23 Cleveland Line
0:24 Lakeside Ave E
0:24 Selzer Way
0:25 St Clair Ave NE
0:26 Saint Clair Ave NE
0:26 E 12th St
0:27 Emerald Ct
0:27 Rockwell Ave
0:27 E 13th St
0:28 Superior Ave E
0:28 Payne Ave
0:29 Chester Ave
0:29 Dodge Ct
0:31 Huron Rd E
0:33 Euclid Ave
0:33 E 12th Pl
0:33 Statler Office Tower
0:35 Huntington Building
0:35 E 8th St
0:38 E 6th St
0:38 E 4th St
0:38 East 2nd Street
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Bridge Ct (Cleveland, OH, Cuyahoga County) to East 2nd Street
Aug 2011

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